The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-03
GREENSBORO BUDGET.
THE CREAM OF THE WEEKS NEWS
FROM THE CITY OF FLOWERS.
An Enthusiastic Meeting of Citizens-A
Projected Boom for Greensboro-More
Raflroads-New Graded School
Water Works, Sc.

An EnCnuS1aSLlc meeting OF SiIlZeHS-{A
Projected Boom for Greensboro-More
RaiIroads-New Graded School /
Water Works, Sc.
Special Correspondence of tie Sentinel.
GREENSBORO, \. c., JAN. 81, 1SS7.-Our
solons have decided in solemn conclaye,
that the municipal ship can't sail any long
er-at least she can't make a prosperous
voyage-without 100000 ballast, in the
shape of a bonded debt. By strange para
dox big debt is the only thing that can
put the right kind of life into town, while
debt per Sc will paralize the best of men.
common little town can soon grow to be
a big city on the interest of what it owes.
Following this idea, Mayor King called
meeting of the citizens last Thursday night
in the Court House to voice the sentiment
of the community on this question. It did
| not get much of discussion. 1t was a one
sided affair-all one way of thinking, as far
as heard from-all the speeches made, and
there were half dozen, favored bonded
debt, and a bonded debt it is to be, of
| 100000. Although Greensboro was the
| first town in the State to build graded
school house, the building has never met
the demands upon its capacity, and is now
] little better than a tumble-down affair,
having been shaken to pieces by the earth
quake, and is now kept up by props. 1t is
proposed tic put part of the 100000 in
school building. And then we are to have
good streets and plenty of them and just
this is job of very indefinite labor and
expense. And then, water works, the
"gordian knot" Of all. The fact is, Green's
boro, is very high and very thirsty place,
and no engineer, tackling the problem of
water works, has ever given US a suggestion
worth picayune as to where the water is
to be had A few of our folks haye said it
must or ought to come from Deep River, as
that is 100 feet higher than this place.
Another gentleman said to-day, that the
water should by all means come from Yad-
kin River. All available and some I'M
available plans have been suggested except
the legitimate Artisan well.
MORE RAILROAD.
A half dozen prominent citizens of Ash
boro passed through few days ago on their
way to Raleigh to engineer Railroad job
through the Legislature, Worthwhile branch
to go on to ASHORE, thence to Rockingham,
Richmond county, &C., and thus they go.
If the Railroads don't pay the projectors
and builders, they fall into the hands of
some syndicate and pay somebody else.
Never hear of Railroad being torn u p and
moved somewhere else or thrown away!
A BIG LUMBER BUSINESS
Is steadily and rapidly growing up here
There could not well be better distribut-
ing center. Three planning mills and other
dry houses can't keep up with the demand.
The Messrs. Wharton, who have just
denhall & Co., are building a mammoth
lumber house 5Ox150 feet for the storage OF
dressed lumber.
DOG LAW
; Is needed by Guilfor1 county, but as Capt
Pink Tatum of your town said by marrying
che never had been, and judging the future
by the past, he supposed he never would
be-" So there IS no precedent to argue for
it, and the valiant(?) Legislature will not
tackle it-constituency might vote for them
to stay at home next time.
NUGGETS.
, 1t is understood that the old rookery or
the corner of Sycamore and South Elm
streets, owned by DIR. Benbow, will be pulled
down in the spring to give place to block
t Of brick stores. The store business is q
, good deal like the whisky business-the
t supply makes the demand.
Chicken cholera has been repeatedly and
! promptly cured by citizen of this place
by the use of pill or two of blue mass
If rammed down their throats when in ar
indisposed condition, they are sometime.
E induced to take new lease on life. This
is science.
Col. Jim Morehead says land he is good
authority that you never need expect t.
: find rabbit in good place-you car
always count on jumping one up just where
l you dent expect to find him.
The genial and handsome young Mr.
Jno. Brown, who has been several years
with the dry goods house of w. R. Murray
lays aside the yard stick and takes up tn,
pill box and scalpel. He is doing the alb
struse theories of muscle, fibre, tissue. ossif
cation, &c, &C.
Apropos of the street peddling whiske,
dealers of Winston, there is Quilp look
ing son of ham here, who is said to vent
the stuff from jug, and every time he solo
a drink would pour in the sam amount 0
water. During one of the late very cole
spells the contents OF his jug froze, and hi
sawed the contents up and sold it by tn